, a leading animation and motion capture company, was hired by Grid Productions to complete seven days of motion capture prior to the release of â€œTRON: Legacy.â€? The film, directed by Joseph Kosinski and released by Walt Disney Pictures, opened on December 17, 2010.
The â€œTRON: Legacyâ€? production crew spent five days rehearsing on the HOM stages followed by seven days of motion capture shooting. The crew shot high-impact stunt work along with more subtle body and finger poses, and movements of actors sitting on and riding the filmâ€™s signature Light Cycles at HOMâ€™s 26,000 square foot studio. HOM was hired to contribute to the project based on the success of their previous collaboration with Grid Productions on motion capture shoots for the first â€œTRON: Legacyâ€? teaser trailer that screened at Comic-Con 2008.
The principal cinematography crew was on set alongside the mo-cap team at HOM to capture live-action footage of select actorsâ€™ faces to map inside of the helmets of digital doubles that appear in the film. The HOM crew captured motion of the actors riding a modified Light Cycle prop that could be manipulated on the mo-cap stage. For the high-action stunt work, actors wore protective wires and getting thrown off of Light Cycles, and in multiple sequences, careening down a dolly track, wearing protective wires to simulate flying through the air after a high-speed crash.
â€œâ€˜TRON: Legacyâ€™ came in and benefited from working on both of the House of Moves stages, working on our fully enclosed soundstage to capture more subtle movements and our 70 foot long main stage which gave them the abilityâ€”and space needed to fling stunt performers long distances across the room,â€? said Scott Gagain, Executive Producer, VICON House of Moves.
HOMâ€™s talented team has contributed realism and emotion to digital character performances in a number of high-profile film projects, â€œG.I. Joe,â€? â€œInvictusâ€? and â€œSpider Manâ€? and game franchises â€œCall of Duty,â€? â€œGod of War,â€? â€œHalo Reachâ€? and more.

About Vicon

Academy AwardÂ®-winning Vicon is the worldâ€™s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, and match moving software. It serves customers in the CG animation industry, film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters: a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for Viconâ€™s service company House of Moves.
Vicon is a subsidiary of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image-understanding solutions for the Entertainment, Defense, Life Science and Engineering markets. Other holdings include: 2d3, a manufacturer of specialized image understanding software for defense applications; Yotta DCL our highways surveying business in the UK; and Yotta MVS, a leading US provider of data collection services for the assessment of property taxation.
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â€œTRON: Legacyâ€? is a 3D action-packed adventure set in a digital world unlike anything captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (OscarÂ® and Golden GlobeÂ® winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the worldâ€™s leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the abandoned Flynnâ€™s Arcadeâ€”that could have only come from his fatherâ€”he finds himself pulled into a world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-or-death journey across a visually stunning universeâ€”created by Kevin Himselfâ€”which has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons and landscapes, and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.
â€œTRON: Legacyâ€? is directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver and Steven Lisberger. The story is by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal, and the screenplay is by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, based on characters created by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. Presented in Disney Digital 3Dâ„¢, Real D 3D and IMAXÂ® 3D and scored by Grammy AwardÂ®â€“winning electronic music duo Daft Punk, â€œTRON: Legacyâ€? opened in theaters on December 17, 2010.

Zylia, the Poland-based manufacturer of multitrack audio recording technologies, today unveiled its new ZYLIA Studio PRO and ZYLIA Ambisonics Converter plug-ins for the Pro Tools digital audio workstation (DAW). Developed to address the needs of audio enthusiasts, the new plug-ins accommodate specific characteristics of Pro Tools and enable use of the DAW with the innovative ZYLIA ZM-1 microphone, along with the ZYLIA Studio PRO and ZYLIA Ambisonics Converter software.